{
  "id": 1759962,
  "title": "BPSC Releases TRE-4 Advertisement After Teacher Aspirants Issue 24-Hour 'Ultimatum'",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/bpsc-releases-tre-4-advertisement-after-teacher-aspirants-issue-24",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-18T16:43:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/education/bpsc-releases-tre-4-advertisement-after-teacher-aspirants-issue-24-hour-ultimatum"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Patna: In response to a 24-hour ultimatum from school teacher aspirants, the Bihar Public Service Commission released the advertisement for the fourth phase of the School Teacher Recruitment Examination (TRE-4.0) on Tuesday. The exam aims to fill 32,388 vacant teacher positions within the state education department. The BPSC had prepared the advertisement, but the students' demand prompted a swift release. The examination has faced protests from aspirants demanding a single-phase exam, the removal of experience weightage for contractual workers in BSSC exams, and the recruitment of librarians who have been awaiting positions for 25 years. Despite the release of the advertisement, the agitation continues, with hundreds of students staging a sit-in at Gardanibagh in Patna, holding national flags and photographs of Mahatma Gandhi. Opposition leader RJD's Tejashwi Yadav pledged support to the protesters, while Bihar's Chief Minister Mithilesh Tiwari Ji and others have backed the movement.",
  "summary": "Patna: After Bihar teachers set a 24-hour deadline for the fourth phase of the School Teacher Recruitment Examination (TRE-4.0), Bihar Public Service Commission on Tuesday released the advertisement for the examination, inviting online applications for the appointment to 32,388 vacant teacher posts under the state education department. TRE-4.0 notification issued The state government had made…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}